February 9, 2020

K & R

Recommended to the max.

Scientists Warn Multiple Overlapping Crises Could Trigger
'Global Systemic Collapse'

BY MARLOWE HOOD, AFP
FEBRUARY 05, 2020

https://www.sciencealert.com/hundreds-of-top-scientists-warn-combined-environmental-crises-will-cause-global-collapse

February 8, 2020

F'n Amazing!!

💕 All cetaceans. They are truly amazing.

"Experts in philosophy, conservation and animal behaviour believe dolphins and whales are sufficiently intelligent to justify the same ethical considerations as humans.

Recognising their rights would mean an end to whaling and their captivity, or their use in entertainment."

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-17116882

Long live The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society!!

Thanks for this thread, my friend.

February 8, 2020

Good point!

Imho, personality differentiation happens in all higher IQ species.

Of course we know, the more intelligent ones are nicer, more compassionate, caring....if human, they'd be Dems.

February 6, 2020

Came across this perfect tweet by accident

https://twitter.com/Protect_Wldlife/status/567792967042465792?s=20

February 6, 2020

I know.

Sadly, I know all too well. 😣

What'd Lamar Assxander say yrs ago? "Hit's the education state" Sure thang, hit is. (Sorry, Tennesseans, my granny sounded like this.)

These kind-hearted folks will give you the shirts off their backs if you look, talk, and believe exactly as they do. "Sweet as can be, if you're just like me." And naive/gullible do not quite cover their critical thinking level. They're great marks for Elmer Gantry types and have been RW Republicans for generations and are not going to change.

Corgigal, did I about cover it?

January 26, 2020

Party? Elizabeth Warren used to be a Republican

So was Hillary. But we never hear that mentioned here, do we?

Those who put labels over principles are narrow minded and usually have some ax to grind. We might even say they're unprincipled.


I just aim to dethrone that psychopathic narcissist.

January 25, 2020

Loved the video. 🎉

Thank you! I got an email off to our old friends from Shanghai yesterday, wishing them a Happy New Year.

🐀 🐁

January 25, 2020

Thank you.

Yes, I understand about that guitar being too warm. Zeke had a few different guitars and although he wasn't the best player, he so loved the Blues. He performed as one of Furry Lewis' regular second guitarists. (He was a teacher by profession.)

The fellow playing above, Edward Phillips, is most exceptional in his ability to create that "raw Mississippi sound." Thanks; it was a joy to listen to him. Zeke was born in Mississippi, btw; his dad was a state senator.

January 24, 2020

It's about greed and it's about oil, as Rachel Maddow states

in "Blowout," her new book.

Rachel Maddow pinpoints the root of all evils: The fossil fuel industry

The fossil fuel industry has warped democracies, poisoned people, fostered corruption and ruined the environment, writes Rachel Maddow.

Her new book, “Blowout,” takes on the fossil fuel industry or, as one person she cites puts it, the “excrement of the devil.” This is not — and who would expect it from Maddow? — an “on the one hand, on the other hand” type of journalistic endeavor. She states her thesis at the outset: The oil and gas industry “is the most consequential, the most lucrative, the most powerful, and the least-well-governed major industry in the history of mankind.”

...The industry is so rich, so “ginormous,” so intertwined with every aspect of our lives and the lives of everyone on Earth that, if you follow the dots, it explains how almost everything in the world works — ultimately, she warns, it will “fatally injure the whole freaking planet.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/the-root-of-all-evils-the-fossil-fuel-industry-says-rachel-maddow/2019/10/03/14273cd6-de1a-11e9-8dc8-498eabc129a0_story.html

Rachel said on her program that this was not the book she intended to write when she began investigating this administration's connections to Russia. She began to realize it was about oil, that "all roads led to the oil" and gas, as she put it.

So, how can we ever utilize alternative energy sources when we so obsessed with oil and fossil fuels? It's almost like a religion - the PTB cannot see the light and move on.

January 24, 2020

HooBoy! Yeah, play it.

Missing my friend who just passed. He would have loved this.

Zeke...RIP

Pic made 2018, Memphis